Teaching While White Podcast

In this episode, Jenna and Liza talk with a cross racial team, Dr. Tabitha Moore and Erin Maguire from Vermont public schools about how they have been able to build a successful collaboration across race to effect greater change.

Jenna sits down to interview Liza, our new co-host, and they discuss what it it means to have principled partnerships across race.

In this episode, we interview two teachers who detracked their math classes. We also spoke with some of their students to find out the impact of tracking and how we can make math literacy more equitable for all.

Jenna Speaks with John Diamond and Amanda Lewis about the role of white educators and white parents in perpetuating racial disparities.

In this episode, Jenna speaks with Kevin Welner, about the system of tracking, or ability based groupings, and the large racial disparities in Gifted and Talented, and Honors classes. Kevin Welner is a white, male professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder, and directs the National Education Policy Center. He specializes in educational policy and law, and is the author of several books, including co-editor with Prudence Carter of “Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance.

Jenna spoke with Ellen Guettlet about her decision to move her children out of a predominantly white school in Minneapolis.

We know some white adults want to talk about race and racism with young children but don't know where to strart. In this interview with band members of City Love, we discuss how essential those conversations are and how to get started.

IIn this episode, Jenna speaks with Mollie Monahan founder of Social Justice Kids, and Debby Irving, racial justice educator, and writer, about the need for talking about race with white kids, and some strategies for how to do it, along with some mistakes and lessons learned.

In this episode, Jenna sits down with Kimberland Jackson to discuss how she thinks about talking about race with students and the resistance she encounters.

In this episode, Jenna sat down with Nicole Post, an elementary school teacher from St. Louis. Nicole describes how she met with and challenged the resistance she faced from administrators and parents when teaching about race in her classroom.

Elizabeth sat down with Thu Anh Nguyen to discuss how the pandemic has highlighted white supremacy in schools.

Elizabeth sits down with author and coach, Elena Aguilar to talk about how race shows up in teaching coaching relationships.

Dr. Janet Helms explains why she created a model that outlines how White people come to understand their racial identity.

A follow up from, To Teach or To Kill a Mockingbird, in this episode we hear from a group of multiracial students about their experiences studying this iconic text in schools

Join us as we interview Shelly Tochluk and Christine Saxman who have been investigating white supremacist organizations and their tactics for recruiting white youth as new members, and what teachers and parents can do about it.